JACOBSTOW, popularly JEWSTOW, a parish, with a village, in Stratton district, Cornwall;
3 miles SE of Widemouth bay, 7½ S by W of Stratton, and 11½ NW of Launceston r. station.
Post town, Week-St. Mary, under Stratton. Acres, 4,554. Real property, £2,402. Pop.,
462. Houses, 97. The property is subdivided. Two barrows are at Headon. The living
is a rectory in the diocese of Exeter. Value, £243. Patron, the Earl of St. Germains.
The church is ancient, has a granite tower, and was repaired in 1831. There are chapels
for Primitive Methodists, Bryanites, and Thornites, and a national school. Digory
Wheare, author of a Life of Camden and other works, was a native.